Motivational Quotes

Children

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

- Chase, Alexander

Best Quotes about Children

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

11.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

25.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

50.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo